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Do you have any proof? By proof any studies that have been peer reviewed or done by a reputable research clinic or university.
Yes cancers were around 50 years ago. The outcome then was not good at all. We hear more about it due to people living longer and more treatments around. People are living longer now than they were years ago. As people age the odds of cancer in one way or another showing up goes up. Sugar doesn't have a thing to do with it.
I always heard sugar feeds cancer cells. Even if this wasn't true it's a good idea not to consume much of it or any at all.
More and more young people are getting it, so it's more than just age (I was only 44). Personally, I think birth control pills have caused the breast cancer epidemic. But I am not a medical professional. My uncle died at 46 of colon cancer and he ate very healthily. I don't know what it is....but it's not age.
I agree it is more then just age. I was 47. Children get cancer. I didn't mean age causes cancer. Just that if you live long enough without something else killing you first you'll probably get cancer. I too knew a person that ate healthy, exercised, and died of colon cancer.
I don't think any ONE thing causes cancer. Genetics, environment, diet - I think they all play a roll.
I asked my oncologist what he thought of the sugar theory. He does not support it. But, who knows? I was on birth control for 23 years, smoked for 20, eat way too much candy and ice cream, no family history of breast cancer, ate healthy (except for the sweet tooth), was fit and active, not overweight (most of my life I was underweight), garden organically - so which one of these factors caused my cancer? Could be none, could be all, could be if you do three things wrong (which three?) you'll get cancer. For now, I don't believe they know what causes ALL cancer. I don't think they even know what causes some cancer. They can't even explain why some people exposed to known carcinogens get cancer and others don't. When they DO know, they will have a cure for cancer. But cancer is too complicated and mutifaceted for such a simple solution as avoiding sugar will prevent cancer.
While my husband went through prostate cancer a few years ago, several doctors spoke to us regarding sugar and cancer. And we read several books by cancer doctors.
Tumor cells thrive on sugar. But it's the fructose that increases proliferation, not the glucose. Cells use glucose differently than fructose. I think it interesting that high fructose corn syrup consumption increased 1000% between 1970 and 1990, and all types of cancer also increased.
There is enough research out there that should cause people to think about the sugar in their lives and to curb it. Researchers are finding more things they believe may be linked to sugar, including High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Liver Disease, and Insulin Resistance.
The thing with diet we've ate since WWII have led to problems beyond cancer. We as people have become heavier, our dietary intake is not as good as it once was. Our physical activity has diminished we spend most of our time sitting on our backsides.
We have more diseases such diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. We are also living longer as a general concept, as we live longer more things go wrong with our bodies. Also what we eat and what do have major factors in our health as a whole. Not just cancer specific.
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